Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did . |
| 2 | How to avoid becoming fat after 30 will be one of the issues addressed by SHE 's food correspondent Janette Marshall , who is also co-author of the bestselling Eat for Life Diet ( Vermilion , £8.99 ) . |
| 3 | The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters . |
| 4 | He could have been paralysed for life … by a toy which been hired to give him a good time . |
| 5 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 6 | Diabetes is quite a burden to carry through life . ’ |
| 7 | But it was the first drug generally recognized as life saving in tuberculosis . |
| 8 | The ‘ endless way of the last lines extends the travelling into a metaphor for the journey we make through life ( compare The Pilgrim 's Progress ) . |
| 9 | The 28 then elected continued to sit for life but the last of them , the Earl of Kilmorey , died in 1961 . |
| 10 | In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue . |
| 11 | Sid Vicious — a simple-minded soul with no ideology save revenge , careering through life like a bad accident looking for somewhere to happen . |
| 12 | You can Ride For Life , Dance for Life … |
| 13 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 14 | An intricate watering system would eventually replace the army of Baluchistan gardeners who tended not only the road islands but the roundabouts and the young plantations of trees struggling for life under the condemnation of the sun . |
| 15 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 16 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 17 | A plump , foolish woman of thirty , with a turned-up nose , Mabel passed through life with an expression of permanent astonishment . |
| 18 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 19 | Durkin , he thought , is one of those men destined to go through life known only by their surname . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't want to go through life as a miracle-worker . ’ |
| 21 | Clasping their 17month-old son William , Julie , 31 , from Walthamstow , East London , added : ‘ I do n't want this little chap to go through life without his dad . ’ |
| 22 | That was all they were , and they had to go through life like that . |
| 23 | Most of the original copies are in fine condition : they are , moreover , exceedingly rate and one is very likely to go through life without coming across better ones . |
| 24 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 25 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 26 | Who , wants to go through life by themself. , does n't mean to say that all the kind of life is one big storm , not at all ! |
| 27 | This is associated with those defects , imperfections , undesirable traits of character , disposition , temperament , etc. , characteristic of imperfectly coordinated people struggling through life beset with certain maladjustments of the psycho-physical organism , which are actually setting up conditions of irritation and pressure during both sleeping and waking hours . |
| 28 | It should be regarded as life and leisure ( SOC VOC ) rather than " school " . |
| 29 | we , also , are dying for life . |
| 30 | DESIGNED FOR LIFE |